360 Break the European and American monopoly to win the hacker attack and defense contest "World champion"

2015-03-19 09:06:00 Source: China News Network (Beijing)

Xinhua Beijing, March 19, in Vancouver, Canada, the Pwn2Own 2015 World Hacking Competition, the security research team from China, Vulcan team took 17 seconds to take the lead in breaking the Microsoft Win8.1 system and the latest IE11 browser. This is the first time in the Asian team to break ie in the World Series, thus breaking the European and American countries in the dominant position on the project.

Figure: Vulcan team security teams win the World hacking contest

Pwn2Own is the world's most recognized level of hacker competition, the competition organizer for the HP Zdi project, Microsoft, Google, Apple and other giants are also sponsors of the event. Hackers can choose IE, Chrome, Safari and Firefox or Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader plug-in as the target, Chrome and IE are the most challenging, the most lucrative two products, The individual bonuses were $75000 and $65000, compared to $30,000 for the Firefox prize that was hit as a "sieve" last year.

Compared with previous years, this year Pwn2Own IE11 Challenge unprecedented, the international top Hacking Team Vupen also renounced. The first team to participate in the Vulcan team chose IE as the target, and successfully exploited a number of 0day vulnerabilities with enhanced sandbox protection, full 64-bit process, Microsoft Emet Vulnerability Defense, Win8.1 security mechanism, such as the highest level of protection IE11, the victory of the gold has reached the 2014 Pwn2Own Unmanned "Unicorn" award.

Vulcan team leader MJ0011 said: IE is China's popular application software, this game ie is a very challenging attack project. We also hope that through the competition to prove the endless, only continuous innovation and progress is the best security solutions.

According to MJ0011, Vulcan team is the  security defender's attack and defense research team, the daily work is mainly to explore software security vulnerabilities and vulnerability threats, help manufacturers to repair vulnerabilities and improve product security. With experience in the field of vulnerability research, Vulcan team is able to design and deliver more effective security solutions. 2014  Security defender launched the "XP Shield Armor" vulnerability defense products, the core technology is designed and developed by Vulcan team.

From 2009 to present,  have 68 times reported Microsoft vulnerabilities and received the acknowledgement of Microsoft Security Bulletin, is the world to help Microsoft to repair the largest number of security software manufacturers. also became Microsoft Windows 10 free upgrade only security partner in China. The Pwn2Own competition, Vulcan team found the loopholes have also been submitted to Microsoft for repair. (It channel Beijing)

(formerly title: Break the European and American monopoly to win the hacker attack and defense contest "World champion")

Break the European and American monopoly to win the hacker attack and defense contest "World champion"